Hip openers
Sat within the area of our hips is a deep vessel called the ‘Dai Mai’ in Chinese Medicine. This is also described as the vessel of latency and where we store what the body does not want the heart to see until we are ready. You could imagine this to be a bit like a belt and for many of us the reason behind why we might gain weight in this area and not anywhere else. The body is such an incredible creation and we are seeing here a process and movement towards stability and safety.
For many of us, our lives contain too much for the heart to deal with and especially in one go and so it has been pushed down. This is particularly true with situations like shock and trauma and so this great wrapping does what it needs to do in order to keep this tension away from the heart and protect not only the heart, but the whole body. So it sends it down and stores it until we are ready, if ever in this lifetime.
Ingredients
Hip openers are postures that stretch the muscles of your buttocks, perhaps the band of tissue through the outer edge of your thigh and target the hip sockets
You should never feel any twisting into your knee joint
Reclined hip openers can help you to organise yourself in a natural way
Try using the wall as this can help you relax more
Go slowly. Nature does not hurry so you don’t need to either
So the hips and the Dai mai is the place where stuff gets dumped just like weight as a layer of protection in order to hold pathology in the fat and if we take the fat away, there is nothing to protect it anymore and it will rise up. Remember, the body is not a fool so this is why when we approach fitness, we approach from all perspectives in a slow and sustainable way. The channels will always protect the jewels with the heart being the main one.
Dai mai and the hips will hold an anchor for you, hold this content safely until you are ready to release the emotion.
